Julius Drachsler's Intermarriage in New York City

James W. Oberly

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2014, vol. 47, issue 2, 95-111

Abstract: Julius Drachsler's 1921 book, Intermarriage in New York City , examined 171,356 individual marriage license applications from New York City in the years 1908--12. The author found little intermarriage across social lines among immigrants but a considerable amount among their U.S.-born children. This study replicates Drachsler's by taking a 1% sample ( N = 1,714 cases) of the same set of marriage license applications for the same years. The replication results show that Drachsler correctly found an increasing trend to intermarriage between the first and second generations, and with close to the same proportions as Drachsler's work. The replication study of New York City marriage licenses is also consistent with the results from a 1910 sample of married couples living in New York City, taken from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Sample. The replication study differs from Drachsler's reported findings on the extent of intermarriages across social lines of nationality and race, mainly due to the idiosyncratic way that Drachsler defined those two constructs. The New York City marriage license files offer the researcher further opportunities to pose and answer questions about intermarriage.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2014.887363

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